I'm being a crybaby over a tooth!!

[mampam]

I'm sorry but I really need to have a rant about my dentist just to make myself feel better.!!

I'm not registered to a dentist and back in October I was having alot of excrutiating pain with what I thought was a wisdom tooth. As I can't really afford to see a normal dentist I managed to get an emergency appointment with a local NHS dentist. I was prescribed anti-biotics and told that I would have to be referred to hospital as they can't remove wisdom teeth in the surgery.

Fine, so I went for my hospital appointment in December, the hospital is nearly an hours drive away and it took me 45 minutes to find a parking space, I had an x-ray and was told that it wasn't actually a wisdom tooth so I could have it out at the dental surgery. I was also put on the hospital waiting list.

So I made an appointment at my local NHS dental surgery to have my tooth extracted only to be told that the nearest time they could fit me in was today (Feb 14th). Meanwhile I have had more anti-biotics because the 1st lot didn't take away the infection completely and neither did this second lot.

After waiting for weeks for this appointment today, leaving a course I was on, early, and having cancelled work this evening I was told that because my tooth still hurt (of course it does there's a bloody great hole in it) I would need more anti-biotics because it would be too painful to take out. What!!??

I pointed out that the two previous courses of anti-b's hadn't worked so I'm going to be in the same situation next time I go to have it out, then all of a sudden the dentist announces that she's got Tennis Elbow so doesn't really want to take my tooth out today. WTF? This is after ranting and raving that the hospital should have taken the tooth out.

I've got home and had a cry, mainly out of frustration and anger and also because I want rid of this bloody tooth!!!

Should I just wait til March to have this tooth out?? I'll have to take a day off work and I'm wondering if I'll get fobbed off again!!

Bloody dentists ,hope you feel better soon xx

If it's still infected and very inflamed it would be very difficult/impossible to numb the nerve enough to take it out without excruciating pain. (not a dentist but work for one, don't hate me )

But - the tennis elbow comment was a bit unnecessary and out of order

i had an abscess and the dentist gave me one day's course of penicillin and removed tooth the next day, when it still hurt. though developed complications with sinus after removal so don't really understand what the correct procedure it tbh. poor you toothache is the worst.

You have been given the right advice [thank god], last year, my fit healthy 25 year old ds1 spent 2 days in intensive care and a week in hospital after an incompetent dentist took out a back tooth with a huge abcess behind it,the poison went straight into his blood,he was lucky to survive,I could have lost my baby boy and my lovely Dil could have been a widow.just from having a tooth out please wait untill the pain has gone.

that's awful heronsfly, i'm wondering if the dentist should have taken mine out so soon (though i would have probably got very angry if he didn't at the time).